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Angel Investor
2018
Lime is the worlds largest shared electric vehicle company. We’re on a mission to build a future where transportation is shared, affordable and carbon-free. Our electric bikes and scooters have powered 400+ million rides in 250+ cities on 5 continents, replacing an estimated 100+ million car trips. Named a Time 100 Most Influential Company and Fast Company Brand That Matters, we achieved a fully profitable year in 2022, becoming the first in our industry to reach this milestone.
Advisor/Investor
Dec 2017
Beekeepers Naturals is reinventing your medicine cabinet with nature’s most powerful ingredients. We’re committed to delivering the highest quality solutions to modern health challenges from brain fog, to low energy, to immune support. We exclusively use nature’s purest and most potent ingredients to formulate our solutions, but we also apply scientific rigor to every single product. We’ve got natural medicine down to a science.
We’re on a sustainability mission. By working exclusively with remote small-scale apiaries, partnering with leading bee research institutions, and prioritizing pesticide-free hive health above all else, Beekeeper’s Naturals works tirelessly to raise awareness and create a better environment for our world’s most important pollinators: the bees.
Visit our website www.beekeepersnaturals.com to learn more.
Advisor/Investor
Jul 2017
At All In, we believe you can have it all. Craveable snacks with quality organic ingredients and positive community impact. We donate a portion of our sales to groups across the US working to increase access to good, nutritious food in their neighborhoods.
Advisor/Investor
Apr 2017
Cubcoats is a venture-backed, startup creating one-of-a-kind, 2-in-1 products that kids love. Their first product, a patented stuffed animal that converts into a hoodie, went viral upon launch in November 2017 with over 50M views on social media and millions more on unpaid TV spotlights.
Advisor/Investor
2017
We are building the first mobility based Smart Screens - Smart Cities advertising and data platform that utilizes the ride share and gig economy for distribution and scale. Our unique location-based, “situationally aware” software and 1st party data enables the most granular, audience-based targeting of any away from home medium on any screen type.
- We are actively creating private:public partnerships with the cities where we deploy our solutions in order to promote a better quality of life for all residents.
- We are dedicated to supporting local businesses with advertising programs to support their unique needs.
- We provide our driver-partners the ability to earn significant additional income to enable them to get closer to achieving their personal goals.
- We are leading innovators on all digital screen types with a goal to deliver performance and successful outcomes for our customers and partners.
Were Hiring!
Advisor/Investor
Sep 2016
Genies is cultures leading avatar technology company with a mission to power an interoperable identity layer across the internet. Genies Tool Kit includes its unique Avatar and Interoperable Frameworks, which enables developers, artists, creators, companies, and platforms to build gamified avatar experiences and universes - all connected through the Genies’ interoperable layer. Through early avatar adoption by cultural tastemakers such as Justin Bieber, Rihanna, Cardi B, Migos, and DJ Khaled, Genies set out to build tools and use cases that would enable limitless compatibility and customization of their avatars for everyone. With offices in LA and SF, the company has raised 200M from investors including Silver Lake, BOND, NEA, and Bob Iger.
Angel Investor
2016
Away is a modern lifestyle brand creating thoughtful products designed to transform travel.
Since our launch in February 2016, we have become one of the fastest growing consumer brands in the world. We have sold millions of travel products, grown from a team of four to over 250, expanded shipping to nearly 40 countries, opened seven stores across two countries, and launched several new products and experiences that are inspiring more people to travel the world. And we know that’s just the beginning!
In just over three years, we have already been twice named one of Fast Company’s “World’s Most Innovative Companies,” one of TIME’s “50 Most Genius Companies,” one of LinkedIns "Top Startups," and a Forbes “Next Billion Dollar Startup.” We have also raised more than $156M in total equity funding to fuel our next phase of growth.
Today, we’re expanding into new travel product categories including apparel, wellness and lifestyle accessories as well as investing in the growth of physical retail in the US and abroad--with the plan to open 50 new stores in the next three years. Sound like something you want to be part of? We’re hiring!
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Angel Investor
2020
SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches the world’s most advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk to revolutionize space transportation, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary.
SpaceX has gained worldwide attention for a series of historic milestones. It is the only private company ever to return a spacecraft from low-Earth orbit, which it first accomplished in December 2010. The company made history again in May 2012 when its Dragon spacecraft attached to the International Space Station, exchanged cargo payloads, and returned safely to Earth — a technically challenging feat previously accomplished only by governments. Since then Dragon has delivered cargo to and from the space station multiple times, providing regular cargo resupply missions for NASA.
For more information, visit www.spacex.com.
2018
Partner
Jul 2018
The Najafi Companies is an entrepreneurially driven private investment firm founded by Jahm Najafi in 2002.
The firm makes investments across industries with significant holdings in consumer, retail, ecommerce, sports, media, and technology.
We are not a fund – we utilize a strategy of concentration, not diversification – we are extremely selective and support each investment with our full attention and resources. We think long-term, move quickly and operate in true alignment with management.
Our passion is to invest, acquire businesses and create value in areas that are underserved or undergoing rapid transformation.
Our mission is to “do well and do good” and partner with world-class, entrepreneurial teams.
Headquartered in Phoenix with offices in Los Angeles and New York
Angel Investor
2018
Lime is the worlds largest shared electric vehicle company. We’re on a mission to build a future where transportation is shared, affordable and carbon-free. Our electric bikes and scooters have powered 400+ million rides in 250+ cities on 5 continents, replacing an estimated 100+ million car trips. Named a Time 100 Most Influential Company and Fast Company Brand That Matters, we achieved a fully profitable year in 2022, becoming the first in our industry to reach this milestone.
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